724 INDEX. 



Psg«x 



Assistant secretaries appointed xiv, 3 



Astronomy, account of progress in, by W. C. Winlock 99 



Astronomical bibliography 163 



observatories, list of, by George H. Boehmer 8,11 



Atlas Steam-ship Line, services rendered by 13 



Anstralia, exchanges 3& 



exchanges with Government of 12, 13, 38 



Austria-Hungary, exchanges 34, 38 



Austrian legation, Washington, correspondence with 40,42,43 



B. 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., services rendered by 13 



Baird, Professor, illness of, prevented completion of report 27 



Report to Board of Regents xiv, 1 



Baird, S. F., letter to Fuuch, Fidye & Co., relating to exchanges with Austria. . 42 



Consul-General of Austria, at New York 39, 40, 42 



Secretary of State, relating to exchanges with Govern- 

 ment of Peru 44, 4S 



Barber A^ Co. attend to shipments of exchanges for England 34 



Barker, George F., account of progress in physics 327 



Batrachia and reptiles of North America, catalogue of, by E. D. Cope 18 



Bayard, T. F., letters to Smithsonian Institution relating to exchanges with 



Government of Peru 44, 45, 46 



Bean, Dr. T. H., retired from editorship of Museum publications 18 



B^bian, L. de, services rendered by 13 



Belgian exchange conferences 14 



Belgium, exchanges to 34,38 



Berry, F. V., duties of, in exchanges 29 



Bibliographic studies of J. C. Pilling , 23 



Bibliography of astronomy, by W. C. Winlock 163 



chemistry, by H. C. Bolton 429 



fossil invertebrates, etc., by John Belknap Marcou 9 



mineralogy, by E. S. Dana 461 



North American palseontology, by J. B. Marcou 232 



papers published by officers of the Museum 18 



vulcanology, by C. G. Rockwood, jr 305 



Biographical memoir of Arnold Guyot, by James D. Dana 693 



Biological Society of Washington held meetings in National Museum 19 



Bison, American, exploration for 5, 19 



Birds, exchange of, circular regarding 10^ 



Bixby, Thomas E. & Co., services rendered by 13 



Board of Regents, Annual Report of, for 1885, Part I 11 



journal of proceedings of xi 



(See Regents) x, xi 



Boehmer, George H., duties of, in exchanges 29 



list of astronomical observations 8, 11 



report on exchanges 29 



Bolivia, exchange shipments made to 34 



Bolton, H. Carrringtou, account of progress in chemistry 387 



catalogue of scientific and technical periodicals. . 9 



Boulton, Bliss & Dallett, services rendered by 13 



Borland, B. R. , services rendered by 13 



Brazil, exchanges 34,38 



British America, exchange shipments made to 34 



